happy canada day

also punished by late afternoon power outage apparently

punished for participating in AC discourse by overnight power outage

John Hinckley Jr. in 1981

"Ed Citroën" who warns about the unsustainability of French AI (Automotive Industry)

Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.

Crash, Smash, Xplode strikes again, this time close to home

pausa de hidratación

hmmmmm

Elton John if he was from Arrakis voice: 🎵Bene(bene), Bene(bene), Bene(bene), Bene Gesserrrrrrittttt🎵

i took a time traveling victorian era orphan to visit this today and he said we should all be embarrassed by how shabby it is compared to the columbian exposition before kicking me in the shins and running off

Man, those Fukken Consultants

another way to phrase this is "world's most expensive dragging equipment detector able to power two gaming PCs running continuously for a year"

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks this is still the funniest gag ever filmed

bernie wagenblast, whose voice new yorkers hear every time they ride the train www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/n...

Feeling for him right now

imagine, 30 boxcars a day full of hard drives full of data! what a concept

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

secure the perimeter

From Reddit: pride train crushes Tesla with Virginia plates, lololol.

hey everyone! I've been helping out Cosmic through TRACTION, our local mutual aid org for trans people fleeing hostile places, and they really could use some help funding their move to Seattle. if you have anything to spare, it would be deeply appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/support-co...

Listen to Boonta Vista

Listen to Hell of a Way to Dad

two millennia ago Socrates postulated what is now regarded as an ancient truth of philosophy - the only thing we can know is that we know nothing. and today the SEPTA trolley tunnel late night schedule reminds us of that truth each and every day

listen to boonta vista

I need to start this thread over from the other site, so, here goes: Baseball’s not the fastest sport. It’s not the most athletic sport. But it is, and always will be, the absolute weirdest sport, and you can’t ever take that away from us

this is what english sounds like to non-english speakers

had a dream where everyone was consulting "claude" for all their writing needs but "claude" was just a guy dressed up like a robot who lived under the bridge next to alexandria union station and who writes really fast

NIMBYs describing an outcome consistent with the plain intent of the law: look at this horrible loophole! thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...

listen to @bloodwork.show

cheering on austria because my dad was born there, but also cheering on argentina due to my profound respect for malbec and grilled meats

Just in case you hadn't worked it out from these two pilot episodes, it's been a delight to record something fun and purposeless about trains with @donoteat.bsky.social as a restful distraction from [gestures at everything] - I'm really excited to see how the show evolves!

KEITH

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

well there *is* this guy in croatia

Modern problems call for modern solutions

a buddy had just come back from spending a year in china and i said “man that real estate collapse though… wow, what a fuckup” and he said “building new urban housing for a billion people requires that you occasionally overshoot by a few millions units” and i’ve never been the same since

behold: the dumbest thing I own, finally fully operational

I AM NOT ASKING ANYMORE

updating my analysis

Welcome to Trainsatlantic. Hosted by @garethdennis.uk and @donoteat.bsky.social. Arriving 22nd June.

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

it's pronounced "schuylkill"

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter